Marvel Announces WIDOWMAKER Follow-Up HAWKEYE: BLINDSPOT

By Albert Ching, Newsarama Staff Writer November 15, 2010 01:37pm ET

Marvel Announces HAWKEYE: BLINDSPOT

Marvel's post-Widowmaker plans are a little clearer, as the publisher has announced a follow-up four-issue miniseries titled Hawkeye: Blindspot, written by current Hawkeye & Mockingbird writer Jim McCann. An artist has not been announced.

The Widowmaker story was originally scheduled to run through issues Hawkeye & Mockingbird issues #7 and #8, and Black Widow #9 and #10. It was instead solicited as a stand-alone miniseries starting in December, leaving the status of both titles unknown.
Also worth noting is that the first issue is advertised at $2.99, following the company's previously announced plans to introduce more titles at that price point.
The full press release from Marvel follows:
Marvel is proud to announce HAWKEYE: BLINDSPOT #1 (of 4), an explosive new beginning for the Avenger’s greatest weaponeer! In the wake of the shocking Widowmaker, Clint Barton is living out a fate worse than death. With his greatest skill now a terrible curse, Hawkeye will have to face down his past sins to forge a new future…but even the man with Marvel’s deadliest aim can’t always see what’s coming!

“If you think Hawkeye has been through it all, think again” says writer, Jim McCann. “Forget Disassembled, House of M, and Siege- THIS is the biggest turning point in Hawkeye's life- a story that will change and define the Avenging Archer for life!”

Heroes will fall, and secrets will surface as writer Jim McCann (Widowmaker, Return of the Dapper Men) unleashes the mini-series that will have every corner of the Marvel Universe talking – HAWKEYE: BLINDSPOT #1 (of 4), on sale this February!